BISA 2026 Conference

Decentring Western Paradigms and anticolonial contestations

FR05

5 Jun 2026, 16:45

1h 30m

The Marina, Maldron Hotel

Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group

Description

Decentering Western Paradigms and anticolonial contestations

Subcontributions

• Is it enough to pluralise? On invoking the spectre of anticolonialism in Global IR
• Problem-Space’ Analysis in Critical and Historical Enquiry: Probing the limits to ‘thinkability’
• The Grand Theft of Thought: How Western IR stole the World and Called it Theory
• Beyond Contestation: Struggle and the Politics of Concepts
• Biopolitics Re-Placed: Situating a New Paradigm of Power and Life - Qawmopolitics